I have read through some other posts on this but had a question. Our 9 month old puppy was pure black when we got him, with just some tan between his toes. As he has gotten older, he now has a significant amount of tan and sable only on the back of his front legs. He also has sable behind his back legs which actually loop around and form a bit of a dark sable "anklet". He has no tan on his face or chest, etc. He has a little bit of extremely light tan (arguably gray??) fur on the inside of his back legs as well...

So I had a few questions -
- Is he black and tan or black?
- When will his coat stop changing?
- Will the gray fall out and turn into tan?

He changes each month and we are just curious as to what he will look like as an adult.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by sable around his legs. Did he have a sable parent? If not then he's not a sable. He sounds like a bi-color. So a mostly black with just tan or brown feet/legs. It might lighten up in the future and it might not, but he's probably just going to stay mostly black with some tan on him.

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